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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani Fast Facts
CNN via AOL· 10 months agoHere’s a look at the life of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s most influential Shiite cleric. Personal Birth date: August 4, 1930 Birth place:...
Iran's supreme leader leads prayers at Raisi funeral
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoIran’s supreme leader has presided over a funeral for the country’s late president, foreign minister and others killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday....
The Marine Corps' forgotten battle in Iraq
WE ARE THE MIGHTY via Yahoo News· 10 months agoA U.S. Marine Corps M1 Abrams Main Battle Tank (MBT), 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), Special Operations Capable (SOC), in convoy along the streets...
How Iran selects its supreme leader − a political scientist and Iran expert explains
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe late President Ebrahim Raisi was supposedly being groomed to succeed an aging Ali Khamenei. The...
How a 92-year-old cleric silently halted Iraq's slide back into war
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWhen a pronouncement by a religious scholar in Iran drove Iraq to the brink of civil war last week,...
Suspect in Salman Rushdie's stabbing is indicted by grand jury
NBC Universal via AOL· 2 years agoThe man accused of stabbing "The Satanic Verses" author Salman Rushdie has been indicted by a grand...
We need an extraordinary act of peace in the Middle East — and I know it can happen
Salon via Yahoo News· 7 months agoMartin Luther King; Mahatma Gandhi; Willy Brandt Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images On Oct. 7,...
Shops in Iran, including Grand Bazaar, close over protests
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 years agoIranian shops in Tehran's historic Grand Bazaar and elsewhere across the country closed their doors...
Despite public anger, no progress in Iraq political deadlock
Politico via Yahoo News· 2 years agoBAGHDAD — Weeks after followers of an influential cleric stormed parliament, Iraq’s political crisis...
Iran president 'has blood on his hands': Ebrahim Raisi and Iran's prison massacres
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoFirst the guards canceled family visits. Then they confiscated the prisoners’ radios. Then came the...